I posted this in another comment but back in early July, some dude on facebook was total “doom and gloom” talking about covid. It was like listening to a kid talk about the boogeyman. I showed him CDC data on recoveries per age bracket and said the risk of dying is incredibly low, and it’s not as bad as we all first anticipated it would be (when we first learned of covid). He said he has a friend who suffered 20% lung damage from covid and that “NO ONE comes out unscathed!”. I said that that’s not really true as a majority of people recovered 100%. He was basically like “pfft yeah okay do you even KNOW anyone that has had covid?”. I tagged my brother & my mom, explained they both tested positive & recovered 100%, to which they backed up. The dude accused them of lying, even after they sent pictures (not screenshots, literal pictures) of their computer screen their positive results (their names clearly displayed on the results).
This dude got so mad they recovered that he said he wished covid would have killed them, then proceeded to say he hoped I’d get covid and end up in the ICU.
Now, when covid first started, I was a little worried, myself. Ya know, we didn’t really know what to expect. But when I learned of people recovering, I felt relieved-not so enraged that my fears were invalidated that I wished they would have died. Just...what the fuck?? It’s like they WANT to be scared, at the expense of other people’s lives.
I posted this in another comment but back in early July, some dude on facebook was total “doom and gloom” talking about covid. It was like listening to a kid talk about the boogeyman. I showed him CDC data on recoveries per age bracket and said the risk of dying is incredibly low, and it’s not as bad as we all first anticipated it would be (when we first learned of covid). He said he has a friend who suffered 20% lung damage from covid and that “NO ONE comes out unscathed!”. I said that that’s not really true as a majority of people recovered 100%. He was basically like “pfft yeah okay do you even KNOW anyone that has had covid?”. I tagged my brother & my mom, explained they both tested positive & recovered 100%, to which they backed up. The dude accused them of lying, even after they sent pictures (not screenshots, literal pictures) of their computer screen their positive results (their names clearly displayed on the results).
This dude got so mad they recovered that he said he wished covid would have killed them, then proceeded to say he hoped I’d get covid and end up in the ICU.
Now, when covid first started, I was a little worried, myself. Ya know, we didn’t really know what to expect. But when I learned of people recovering, I felt relieved-not so enraged that my fears were invalidated that I wished they would have died. Just...what the fuck?? It’s like they WANT to be scared, at the expense of other people’s lives.